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Re: What Are the Race Deniers Denying?
Philip Kasiecki (pkasieck@lynx.dac.neu.edu)
11 Nov 1996 18:12:29 GMT
In article <32875874.697@conterra.com>,
Bob Whitaker (bwhit@conterra.com) wrote:
: carl skutsch wrote:
: > IQ tests do not measure intelligence, rather, they measure how well
: > one can do on an IQ test. Many people show a remarkably naive faith
: > in the ability of learned men in white lab coats to determine what
: > intelligence is thru an arbitrary set of questions. I do very well
: > on standarized tests, this does not mean that I am intelligent
: > (although, of course, I am); it does mean that I feel relaxed in a
: > testing environment, that I'm well educated, and perhaps that I
: > have some basic 'extra' degree of smarts. I'm not saying there is
: > no such thing as intelligence, I am merely suggesting that it is a
: > much more complex entity than many people seem to think, and that we
: > are far from being able to accurately quantify it.
: OH, HORSESHIT!
: None of the clones who insist IQ is meaningless would let anybody
: try for one of their precious PhD's who did not have an IQ of at least
: 120.
: Get off it!
Bull shit, Bob.
It's really funny how you think a Ph.D is meaningless, but an IQ
test shows everything, yet they're similar in some regard. Personally,
I think a Ph.D. is a better thing than an IQ of, say, 140. Just like
four years of straight As in high school is a lot better than a 1500+
SAT score.
I've never heard of any case where an IQ test score meant the
difference between being admitted to a Ph.D. program; maybe you can cite
one for us, though.
Until then: get off it.
Phil Kasiecki
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Philip T. Kasiecki
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Northeastern University Class of 1999
"None of us alone can save the nation or the
world. But each of us can make a positive
difference if we commit ourselves to do so."
-Cornel West, "Race Matters"
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